The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

People who say this do not realize that they themselves are the greatest obstacle to the solution of the question of their hearts. They do not realize that through what is to be given to their minds, their souls will receive precisely what they desire. They do not realize that when they speak in this way, they are rejecting precisely what their souls need. There is nothing that instills the divine in the soul as much as the knowledge of world evolution. If we know that, just as the rainbow breaks down into the seven colors of rainbow light, the human being breaks down into seven members, and we do not harden ourselves against these ideas, then these very ideas are the lifeblood for our soul to overcome what stands in the way of immersion in the spiritual. Objections of this kind are encountered above all in those natures who are just as deeply serious as the desire to find deepening of the soul in a comfortable way allows, and who shy away from penetrating into the real depths of the soul. The secret researcher cannot extract the feeling from people's souls, but must lead them into the spiritual world through knowledge, must show them how, through knowledge, the highest deepening can be attained that one can possibly strive for. A longing for satisfaction of the soul is the greatest enemy of the striving human being. But this is precisely what deters many from theosophy and spiritual research: they do not want to engage in this energetic spiritual work, which is at the same time a refreshment for the soul. There is nothing that can lift the soul up to the divine in this way except knowledge, the self-induced deepening into the spiritual world.